Whidbey Island Winery

Machinery for grape processing and wine manufacturing: (50 ton / hour) Different stainless steel and enameled tanks (total capacity: 800 tons). The plant has been designed for industrial grape processing and wine and brandy manufacturing, in Ararat valley,...

We deliver worlwide from Spain. French or american oak, cleaned, desinfected, ... I currently have some available lots of used wine barrels in good condition to be used in aging wines, spirits, whisky, beer, etc.

These are gentle animals, they are with humans daily. Pure Bred boar also available. We have 3 new litters of baby pigs born January 15 and 19 that will be ready to sell in late March reserve now.

Mauritius is the elder of the gang, with eight million years while Reunion is only three million years old and infant Rodrigue just one and a half. The most evident effect of this age difference is that Mauritius is rather flat and eroded while Reunion...

But we will not indulge into such trivial and cliched activities; our aim is off the beaten tracks.Well, we made it back! A little sweaty, muddy feet and sore legs but much satisfied with this little excursion in the wild; it is now time to get back to...

It is usually found in fallows and forests, growing on sandy or rocky soils, in full sun to partly shaded exposure.The leaves are composed of eight to seventeen pairs of leaflets,the flowers come in dense clusters with a corolla pink to crimson.They are...

Interested clients should contact us to place their orders from i day old chicks to egg laying chickens Interested clients should contact us to place their orders from i day ... We have several varieties of chickens including crossbreeds and of all age...

So we only saw six of those fascinating plants that creep, climb and slowly but surely can cover an ugly fence or uninteresting decaying plant, we still have many more to discover, so be sure to come back!

We will anyhow be back as there still are around many interesting vines waiting for us to admire them! We can now walk out of this ravine and go back to civilization, maybe enjoying a drink by the lagoon before heading home to the garden.

See you all soon! This small tour of some vines of Reunion took us once again in a world-wide trip; I would bet that it will not be the last one we take together. Here we come once again, vine lovers! The three preceding articles introduced climbers which...

And indeed, tourism is the number one industry (930,500 tourists visited during the year 2008, compared to the 1,200,000 inhabitants) with people coming from Europe, Asia, America, South Africa and of course many from Reunion (people in Mauritius would...

I hope you enjoyed this little tour and will now start growing all sorts of vines, climbers and lianas! They need some tending but are really fun and grow fast, even producing marvelous fruits for the sweet tooth.

Be sure to not entangle your feet in all those scrambling stems and make time to come back for more! Yes, we already became acquainted with quite a few of those species in the four previous parts, but the subject is so vast that we have to revisit it!...

They were fugitive African and Malagasy slaves who escaped from coastal farms. Besides growing chouchou, the cirque relies on agricultural products such as fruits (bananas, peaches), sugarcane and livestock are also raised, mostly hens and pigs.

Most of those can be related to orchid species growing in the area like Madagascar of the Comoro archipelago but about twenty percent cannot be related and are thus endemics to Reunion.

Plants have been on this planet for a lot longer than specialists have, and somehow they managed to survive without all the sprays and solutions, pellets and potions. The orchids grow.

It was brought to Hawaii in several stages. So what can I write that might be of interest, given all the expertise that already exists out there? There are societies dedicated to the proliferation and study of the plumeria and all its many cultivars.

The other islands of the Comoros are Grande Comores, Moheli and Anjouan that have set up the Union des Comores and still claim Mayotte as part of the archipelago.Tourism is far from being developed, the island remains away from large aerial routes with...

They lived for quite a while as a close society and faced alcoholism and as well as consanguinity problems. Agriculture is obviously important, and self-sufficiency had been the rule since the first settlers.

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While the queen is still alive and feeding the larva she produces some hormones which effect is to sterilize the larva hence giving birth only to workers. So the female, which is a potent queen, will find a protected place such a one listed above and...

The first people to settle there were seven French Huguenots (Protestants who fled at the time of the Edit de Nantes) in the year 1693. When I say tiny dot I mean it as Rodrigue is 18 km long and 8 km wide with a total area of 108 square km, to be compared...

So with good shoes on, comfortable hiking clothes, water, snacks, and camera plus your first-aid kit, you're ready. This fantastic mass made a natural dam behind which water started to fill until it represented a potential danger for St-Joseph; if it...

Some species are strongly present on Reunion Island and we will meet a few of them here. They should be grown and enjoyed much more. There are about 250 recorded species of ferns on the island, out of which some 18 are endemic strictly to Reunion while...

Not much to do there except buying supplies and visiting the small oceanographical museum. Those lakes can be visited, but their sacredness forbids swimming in them, enforced by the presence of crocodiles (which are also sacred themselves of course but...

His successors kept working in the same spirit and when the English took over the island in 1810 they followed the same path. But it was really boosted by Pierre Poivre, the king's intendant who was also a devoted naturalist who worked there from 1767...

An extra event was added in which the result is not added to the final score; it is a local specificity and we choose bare-hand coconut climbing of course...A large Ficus tree was also liberally fitted out with climbing ropes for the sole amusement of...